ICE agents clash with protesters outside San Francisco Immigration Court | Fox News
By: Sarah Rumpf-Whitten (Fox News)
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Video from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement shows masked mob clashing with ICE agents outside a San Francisco immigration court amid tensions over a migrant's detainment. (ICE via X)
A confrontation erupted outside the San Francisco Immigration Court this week, as video shared by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) captured a tense altercation between agents and protesters.
The clash, which took place Tuesday, is the latest in a growing series of confrontations with federal immigration officers.
According to ICE, assaults on immigration agents have surged nearly 700% compared to last year.
United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents clashed with protesters in San Francisco, Calif. on Tuesday, July 8.(United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement via X)
Footage posted by the agency on X shows masked protesters scuffling with ICE agents wielding batons.
"Get back, get back," agents are heard repeatedly telling protesters.
"Shame on you, shame on you," protesters are heard yelling, amid screams.
At one point, demonstrators appeared to attempt access to a black ICE SUV parked outside the courthouse. A protester is seen lunging at officers as they push back, and several individuals climb onto the hood of the vehicle.
"This behavior is NOT protesting," ICE wrote in a post Thursday. "It's assaulting federal employees while they're on duty. It's impeding federal officers. It's ILLEGAL. It's DANGEROUS. And it will NOT stop us from enforcing immigration law."
Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents clash with protesters in San Francisco on Tuesday, July 8.(U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement via X)
Many of the demonstrators were seen wearing keffiyeh scarves, a symbol often associated with pro-Palestinian activism.
The group reportedly sought to prevent ICE from placing a detained migrant into the van, though the individual's identity and legal status were not disclosed.
According to local outlet Mission Local, the protest was in response to the detainment of a specific migrant, but further details of the case have not been made public.
An ICE spokesperson told Fox News Digital that rioters "violently attacked and obstructed federal law enforcement officers who were exercising their sworn duties."
"These violent individuals have zero respect for the rule of law and casually violate it. This type of vile behavior has led to a 700% increase in assaults against ICE officers, and just last week, a coordinated attack at an ICE facility led to an officer being shot," they said. "Under Secretary Noem's leadership, DHS will not tolerate violence against officers, and those responsible will be held accountable."
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As the Trump administration continues to ramp up immigration enforcement, individuals against the administration have actively opposed ICE operations, particularly the practice of detaining individuals at immigration courthouses.
Demonstrators have called for an end to ICE agents operating in plainclothes and using unmarked vehicles, practices they argue contribute to fear and lack of accountability.
The Visible Identification Standards for Immigration-Based Law Enforcement (VISIBLE) Act, introduced by Democratic Sens. Alex Padilla of California and Cory Booker of New Jersey, aims to ban immigration officers from concealing their identities while engaged in enforcement activities.
"For weeks, Americans have watched federal agents with no visible identification detain people off the streets and instill fear in communities across the country," Booker said of the bill Tuesday. "Reports of individuals impersonating ICE officers have only increased the risk to public and officer safety. The lack of visible identification and uniform standards for immigration enforcement officers has created confusion, stoked fear and undermined public trust in law enforcement."
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Taz them put them in cuffs and prosecute them. these shitheads need to be made an example of.
Very insurrectiony
You have to be an unamerican piece of shit to not understand why the National Guard and Marines are needed to protect the ICE agents.
As is anyone that supports this lawlessness against people protecting us all.
Perhaps they are assuming that Trump will pardon them like the previous time at the Capitol Building.
These people were at the Capital Building? Wow, one would think they had learned their lesson being in jail for God knows how long prior to their court appearance and sentencing.
[✘] Once again a pathetic attempt to deflect . BTW I think many [✘] thought Trump went too far in his pardoning people that were violent.
Then they are pretty stupid and will be greatly disappointed.
Some of us predicted escalated resistance. People dont want masked vigilantes in their neighborhoods.
Start detaining only violent criminals for the time being and things will calm down.
They are federal agents doing their jobs.
They neither look like it nor act like it. That drives a lot of the resistance. The government [deleted] [✘] want to blame this all on protesters and are unwilling to even consider that the government can behave in an outrageous way that is offensive to regular people. Looking in the mirror is not even on the table. In such an environment, abuse is inevitable.
"Don't do the crime if you can't do the time."
That being the case, these idiot "protesters" never seem to think about the consequences of their virtue signaling. Do these dumbasses not work? Are they paid to show up, or do they actually use vacation time to exhibit their idiocy?
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Then they should kick the illegals out. Taking care of your neighborhood will keep law enforcement presence to a minimum.
That progressives don't believe in the rule of law and would resort to violence to get their way was not that hard to foresee.
Whining does not get them what they want so they resort to violent tantrums...........just like any two year old would.
The rule of law? Or just rule? Not everything government does is automatically within the rule of law. Government has a duty to enforce the law, but also a responsibility to conform to the law. There are limitations on government that exist in the Constitution. That is also the law.
And since we're talking about respect for the law, I will remind everyone that [deletd] [✘] voted for a felon to be president - a felon who escaped punishment for his crimes only because it was too controversial and difficult to punish someone who might be president. And then that president pardoned about 1,500 rioters, including people who assaulted cops. So, maybe don't be too sanctimonious when lecturing the rest of us about believing in the rule of law.
Since the conservatives got away with it, why wouldn't they feel that they'd be treated the same?
Since the conservatives got away with it, why wouldn't they feel that they'd be treated the same?
Lol. The FBI spent four years hunting down and prosecuting non-violent offenders.
J6 only happened because Democratic officials spent 2020 letting people riot without fear of punishment. Then, on j6, two tier policiing took effect and suddenly even non violent protesting was a federal crime.
They might. They have shown themselves to be pretty low IQ.
Some people have gone over the edge.
ome people have gone over the edge.
Yeah, they are defending terrorists for attacking ICE.
Easy for me. I supported punishing all the violent J6 rioters and everyone who attacks ICE or the police in the 2020 riots. Almost feel sorry for progressives whose support for attacking police flips depending on who is in power.
No one had any business entering the Capitol building on J6. It was locked to vistors, thus the breaking and entering.
This doesnt look like any peaceful protest I've ever seen
Your picture doesn't depict any violence.
Were they scaling a 20 ft wall to sing kumbaya ?
Is scaling a wall an act of violence? Who is the victim?
Apparently not because many on the left cheer on illegals as they scale the border walls.
Of course Jan 6th wasn't a "peaceful protest", anyone who believes that is likely having trouble explaining themselves due to Trumps short fat mushroom dick deep in the back of their apparently shallow throats and minds.
But none of that excuses ANY violence towards ICE agents. If Americans want to protest ICE and this administration, that is their constitutional prerogative. They do not have any right to be violent or to vandalize city or private property.
Anyone who attacked the agents or caused any vandalism or violence in LA, San Francisco or anywhere else for that matter, should be held accountable for their crimes. That small handful of dipshits and intentional instigators are making it exponentially harder for the VAST majority of protesters who are actually just legally exercising their rights to protest. So fuck those guys, arrest them and thow them in jail. I'll bet just like last time in 202o many will be found to be rightwing extremists among the crowd trying to foment unrest or another civil war.
The rightwing wants desperately for those on the left to attack them, they want the left to use violence because it's the only way the right can claim the high road. They know they can't win on substance; they haven't had an original idea in half a century, all they have is if the "left" does something they can get all riled up and self-righteous about.
It also wasn’t the “insurrection” many on the left try to portray it as.
According to the MAGA's doing the "protest" what was their reason for being there then???
You’d have to ask them.
They have been asked, and their answer is available to anyone who wants to know via the internet. So if you truly want to know, Google it.
You asked the question, not me.
I asked you and you professed ignorance of the answer. So I simply supplied you with a method to find the answer.
You're welcome.
My mind reader was broken that day so my answer to your question stands.
Glad I could help out
Then why are those cowardly pieces of shit wearing masks while they attack the patriotic ICE agents.
I take it you mean those protesters/ demonstrators .
to me , they represent the masked vigilante arm of the court of public opinion , all i really know , is actions have consequences eventually .
When you physically assault a member of law enforcement you are no longer a protestor/demonstrator, you are a criminal.
Is it also cowardly when ICE agents wear masks? Or only when protestors do it?
They are criminals, they have moved beyond being protestors. plus nobody is threatening the lives of those pieces of shit, just the patriotic ICE agents and their families.
I hear that a lot, but have not seen much, if any, evidence of it. Have you? If so, could you link to it?
Is google broken where you are?
In one rant, White threatened to kill an agent, “but first his children,” ICE said.
NY man charged with threatening to shoot ICE agents — and their kids: ‘Kill them all’
Jamestown man charged over online threats to federal agents
Dallas man arrested after threats to kill ICE agents "on sight," authorities say - CBS Texas
No. They do it to protect themselves and their families from whackadoodles. Or have you missed the 700 % increase in violence against them
They wear masks to try to escape being held accountable. They believe in the cause, but not enough to get in trouble over it.
Why do activists and protestors feel the need to wear masks
You would to if your family was getting threatened and doxed by a very organized and cowardly left wing apparatus.
You know better than that.
"These violent individuals have zero respect for the rule of law and casually violate it. This type of vile behavior has led to a 700% increase in assaults against ICE officers, and just last week, a coordinated attack at an ICE facility led to an officer being shot," they said. "Under Secretary Noem's leadership, DHS will not tolerate violence against officers, and those responsible will be held accountable."
Kick some ass and then arrest them no matter how much they try to portray themselves as innocent victims.
So to show they truly are idiots they wear the keffiyeh.
And sadly the violence of the "protestors" will continue until they are all laid out with equal or greater force.
They don't realize there are new sheriffs and deputies in town and all the whining from politicians like bass will not protect them from what they deserve.
There is a lot they don't realize. And it's going to bite them in the ass.
So only acceptable if your bandanna is red, white, or blue?
A piece of crap who profited off his wife's tragedy, fuck him, i have seen zero evidence of unidentified ice agents, lying pieces of shit like Senator Kelly is the problem not the solution.
Background on Unidentified Agents
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The worthless opinion pieces of anti-trump anti ICE fucktards are worthless, the moronic Controller in NY said the same retarded thing, and when showed a picture of his arrest every agent had identification on their persons, repeating a lie doesn't make it true.
ICE Agents' Identities Exposed by Activists - Newsweek
Law enforcement normally doesn't wear masks. But the above article clearly explains why it has become necessary.
Today's left-wing activists and protestors have taken it a step further and now try to identify individuals and gather personal information about them such as where they live and who their family members are. Then they can threaten them and invade their privacy.
So masks on cops just levels the playing field. They should pass laws making it a crime for protestors or criminals to wear masks.
Most patriotic Americans support law enforcement at all levels. Why don't progressives support the police, instead of trying to hobble them and prevent them from just doing their jobs?
The first part of your sentence answers the second part.
Is that crickets I hear from our friends on the left? Yes, I do believe it is.
So Kelly is going with the dem party line. How shocking